Table 1. Publication access table—Hyperlinks to U.S. Geological Survey tight-gas assessment publications and Web pages.

Province Age of tight-gas intervals USGS National Oil and Gas Assessment Publications USGS National Oil and 

Gas Assessment Website

Appalachian Basin Late Ordovician to Mississippian

Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas 

resources of the Appalachian Basin 

Province, 2002 (Milici and others, 2003),

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-009-03/

Assessment of Appalachian Basin oil and gas 

resources—Devonian shale–middle and upper 

Paleozoic Total Petroleum System (Milici 

and Swezey, 2006), http://pubs.usgs.gov/

of/2006/1237/

Assessment of Appalachian Basin oil and 

gas resources—Utica-Lower Paleozoic 

Total Petroleum System (Ryder, 2008), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1287/

Appalachian 

Basin

Arkoma Basin Pennsylvanian

Assessment of undiscovered natural gas 

resources of the Arkoma Basin Province 

and geologically related areas (Houseknecht 

and others, 2010), http://pubs.usgs.gov/

fs/2010/3043/

Arkoma Basin

Bighorn Basin Late Cretaceous

Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources 

of the Bighorn Basin Province, Wyoming and 

Montana, 2008 (Kirschbaum, M.A., 2008), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3050/

Petroleum systems and geologic assessment 

of oil and gas in the Bighorn Basin Province, 

Wyoming and Montana (U.S. Geological 

Survey Bighorn Basin Assessment Team, 2010), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-v/

Burial history, thermal maturity, and oil and 

gas generation history of source rocks in the 

Bighorn Basin, Wyoming and Montana (Roberts 

and others, 2008), http://pubs.usgs.gov/

sir/2008/5037/

Bighorn Basin

Denver Basin Early Cretaceous

2002 USGS Assessment of oil and gas resource 

potential of the Denver Basin Province of 

Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, 

and Wyoming (Higley and others, 2003), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-002-03/

Petroleum systems and assessment of undiscovered 

oil and gas in the Denver Basin Province, 

Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and 

Wyoming—USGS Province 39 (Higley, 2007), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-p/

Gas, oil, and water production from Wattenberg 

field in the Denver Basin, Colorado (Nelson 

and Santus, 2011), http://pubs.usgs.gov/

of/2011/1175/

Denver Basin

Piedmont, Blue Ridge Thrust Belt, 

Atlantic Coastal Plain, 

and New England

Late Triassic

Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas 

resources of the east coast Mesozoic Basins 

of the Piedmont, Blue Ridge Thrust Belt, 

Atlantic Coastal Plain, and New England 

Provinces, 2011 (Milici and others, 2012), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3075/

East Coast 

Mesozoic Basins

Eastern Oregon and Washington Tertiary

Assessment of undiscovered gas resources 

of the eastern Oregon and Washington 

Province, 2006 (Brownfield and others, 

2006), http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3091/

Geologic assessment of undiscovered gas 

resources of the eastern Oregon and Washington 

Province (U.S. Geological Survey Eastern 

Oregon and Washington Province Assessment 

Team, 2008), http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/

dds-069-o/

Eastern Oregon 

and Washington

North-Central Montana Late Cretaceous

Assessment of undiscovered biogenic gas 

resources, north-central Montana Province 

(Ridgley and others, 2008), http://pubs.usgs.gov/

fs/2008/3036/

North-Central 

Montana

Powder River Basin Cretaceous

Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas 

resources of the Powder River Basin Province 

of Wyoming and Montana—2006 Update 

(Anna and others, 2006), http://pubs.usgs.gov/

fs/2006/3135/

Total Petroleum Systems and Geologic Assessment 

of Oil and Gas Resources in the Powder River 

Basin Province, Wyoming and Montana (Anna 

and others, 2009), http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/

dds-069/dds-069-u/

Powder River 

Basin

San Juan Basin Cretaceous

Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources 

of the San Juan Basin Province of New Mexico 

and Colorado, 2002 (Ridgley and others, 2002), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-147-02/

Total Petroleum Systems and geologic assessment 

of undiscovered oil and gas resources in 

the San Juan Basin Province, exclusive of 

Paleozoic rocks, New Mexico and Colorado 

(U.S. Geological Survey San Juan Basin 

Assessment Team, 2013), http://pubs.usgs.gov/

dds/dds-069/dds-069-f/

San Juan Basin

Southern Alaska Jurassic and Cretaceous

Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources 

of the Cook Inlet region, south-central Alaska, 

2011 (Stanley, Charpentier, and others, 2011),

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2011/3068/

U.S. Geological Survey 2011 assessment of 

undiscovered oil and gas resources of the 

Cook Inlet region, south-central Alaska 

(Stanley, Pierce, and Houseknecht, 2011), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1237/

Southern Alaska

Southwestern Wyoming Cretaceous

Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources 

of the southwestern Wyoming Province, 2002 

(Kirschbaum, Finn, and others, 2002), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-145-02/

Petroleum systems and geologic assessment of oil 

and gas in the southwestern Wyoming Province, 

Wyoming, Colorado and Utah (U.S. Geological 

Survey Southwestern Wyoming Province 

Assessment Team, 2005), http://pubs.usgs.gov/

dds/dds-069/dds-069-d/

Southwestern 

Wyoming

Uinta-Piceance Basin Cretaceous

Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources 

of the Uinta-Piceance Province of Colorado 

and Utah, 2002 (Kirschbaum, Anna, and others, 

2002), http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0026-02/

Petroleum systems and geologic assessment of 

oil and gas in the Uinta-Piceance Province, 

Utah and Colorado (U.S. Geological Survey 

Uinta-Piceance Assessment Team, 2003), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-b/

Facies analysis and sequence stratigraphic 

framework of upper Campanian strata (Neslen 

and Mount Garfield Formations, Bluecastle 

Tongue of the Castlegate Sandstone, and 

Mancos Shale), Eastern Book Cliffs, Colorado 

and Utah (Kirschbaum and Hettinger, 2004), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-g/

Uinta-Piceance 

Basin

Wind River Basin Cretaceous

Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas 

resources of the Wind River Basin Province, 

2005 (Kirschbaum and others, 2005), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2005/3141/

Petroleum systems and geologic assessment of 

oil and gas in the Wind River Basin Province, 

Wyoming (U.S. Geological Survey Wind River 

Basin Province Assessment Team, 2007), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-j/

New vitrinite reflectance data for the Wind River 

Basin, Wyoming (Pawlewicz and Finn, 2013), 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1002/

Wind River Basin

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